Lucknow Falcons Vs Gorakhpur Lions Match 17 07 September 2023

17th T20 • Green Park • Kanpur

Gorakhpur Lions

78/8 (8)

Lucknow Falcons

82/0 (7.5)

LF won by 10 wickets

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Playing XI

Player of the Match Nadeem

3/13

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Gorakhpur Lions

78/8 (8)

Batters

Abhishek Goswami

193.75

c Tyagi b Nadeem

Dhruv Jurel

(C)

116.67

c Amaan b Chaudhary

Siddharth Sarvan Yadav

0.00

c Yash Dayal b Chaudhary

Sameer Choudhary

185.71

c Singh b Singh

Yashovardhan Singh

150.00

c Nigam b Nadeem

Harshit Sethi

66.67

b Yash Dayal

Shivam Sharma

122.22

c Singh b Chaudhary

Abdul Rehman-VI

50.00

c Singh b Nadeem

Vasu Vats

100.00

Not out

Dhruv Pratap Singh

0.00

Not out

Extras

(B: 0, LB: 2, NB: 2, W: 2)

TOTAL

(8 Ov, RR: 9.75)

78/8

Did not Bat

Sparsh Jain, Sunil Kumar

Bowlers

EXT

Yash Dayal

9.00

Vikrant Chaudhary

10.00

Kartikeya Jaiswal

14.00

Kritagya Singh

11.00

Nadeem

6.50

Fall Of Wickets

SCORE

OVER

Dhruv Jurel

c Amaan b Chaudhary

1-8

1.2

Siddharth Sarvan Yadav

c Yash Dayal b Chaudhary

2-8

1.3

Sameer Choudhary

c Singh b Singh

3-39

3.3

Yashovardhan Singh

c Nigam b Nadeem

4-52

4.5

Harshit Sethi

b Yash Dayal

5-57

5.2

Abhishek Goswami

c Tyagi b Nadeem

6-67

6.1

Abdul Rehman-VI

c Singh b Nadeem

7-70

6.4

Shivam Sharma

c Singh b Chaudhary

8-76

7.5

Lucknow Falcons

82/0 (7.5)

Batters

Shaurya Singh

196.00

Not out

Harsh Tyagi

131.82

Not out

Extras

(B: 0, LB: 1, NB: 0, W: 3)

TOTAL

(7.5 Ov, RR: 10.47)

82/0

Did not Bat

Aaradhya Yadav, Kartikeya Jaiswal, Kritagya Singh, Sudhanshu Sonkar, Yash Dayal, Mohd Amaan, Vikrant Chaudhary, Nadeem, Vipraj Nigam

Bowlers

EXT

Sunil Kumar

9.00

Dhruv Pratap Singh

14.00

Abdul Rehman-VI

7.00

Shivam Sharma

11.00

Vasu Vats

0.5

9.60

Match Info

Date & Time

07 Sep, 07:30 PM IST

Venue

Green Park, Kanpur

Match

17th T20,

Uttar Pradesh T20

Toss

Gorakhpur Lions elected to bat

1 1 4 4 6 4

Over 5

Runs: 20

0 2 1 0 3 6

Over 6

Runs: 12

1 1 0 0 6 1

Over 7

Runs: 9

2 1 0 1 4

Over 8

Runs: 8

All Overs

Player of the Match Nadeem

3/13

Commentary

Well, there's another double header lined up for tomorrow as the games keep coming in thick and fast in this league. Make sure you join our coverage to keep up with all the action. For now, this is the pair of Pratyush Rohra and Arya Sekhar Chakraborty, taking your leave. We hope you enjoyed our coverage. Goodnight!

Right then. Lucknow Falcons jump to second place on the points table after this win and will be hoping to stay there to seal their playoff spot in the coming days. As for the Gorakhpur Lions, they're at the bottom of the table having won only one game in the tournament so far. Their playoff hopes are all but over, sadly, and they have nothing but pride to play for in the coming days.

Yash Dayal (Lucknow Falcons): It feels great. It's a great opportunity for me to captain. Unfortunately, Priyam is injured and I got the opportunity. Priyam will take a game or two to return to the side. It was a shortened game, so we wanted to contain them as much as we could. Nadeem bowled brilliantly, as did Vikrant. The bowling performances helped the batters to chase the target down.

Nadeem is the Player of the Match. Let's hear what he has to say: Only wanted to bowl in the right areas and keep their batters to a minimal total. I wanted to cramp the batters for room and stick to the stumps. Not give them too much room to free their arms.

Dhruv Jurel (Gorakhpur Lions captain): Definitely we would have chased this had the rain come in late. I could have changed my plans but this is how it goes. It was a decent score. Our plan was to bowl in the right areas. Execution was secondary. We knew that it was a shortened game. We wanted to go at one go. All credit goes to Shaurya for the innings he played.

Lucknow Falcons win by 10 wickets!

Shaurya Singh - 49* (25) | Nadeem - 3/13
Abhishek Goswami - 31 (16) | Abdul Rehman - 0/14

Game. Set. Match. That was a comprehensive display by the Lucknow Falcons, from start to finish. It was their bowlers who did most of the heavy lifting early on, restricting the Gorakhpur Lions to a minimal total in this rain-curtailed game. Nadeem and Vikrant were the heroes with the ball in the first innings, and it's the openers who sealed the deal with an emphatic stand.

The Falcons' openers started off watchfully in the first half of the run chase, ticking along without too many boundaries. With wickets in hand, Shaurya finally flicked a switch and took the attack to Dhruv Pratap Singh, scoring 20 runs off the fifth over. In a small run chase, that was enough for Lucknow to be in control from there on.

Harsh Tyagi played his part as the second fiddle, supporting Shaurya from the other end. Eventually, the two completed a mature and commanding run chase to gun down the target and get their side over the line, keeping their playoff hopes alive in this tournament. As for the Lions, they bow out without another loss and will not be making it to the playoffs this season.

It did seem like rain would play spoilsport in this game, but instead, it delivered a fascinating shortened game that was worth the wait. Let's hear what the captains have to say at the post-match presentation.

7.5 Vasu Vats to Shaurya Singh, FOUR! Lucknow Falcons with an emphatic 10-wicket victory. That was a fuller-length delivery outside off, Shaurya was always going to throw caution to the wind this time. Carved away from the outside half of the bat which flies over the short third man fielder and off to the fence.

7.4 Vasu Vats to Harsh Tyagi, fuller one angling back into Harsh, he comes down the track and flicks it away towards the widish long-on region for a single.

7.3 Vasu Vats to Harsh Tyagi, fuller-length delivery a shade outside off, that has been crunched all along the carpet, finds the extra cover fielder. A rare dot ball at this stage. 2 required off 3 balls.

7.2 Vasu Vats to Shaurya Singh, that was a length delivery drifting down leg, Shaurya tries to pick that up and deposit that over square leg, played away towards the square leg region for a single.

7.1 Vasu Vats to Shaurya Singh, that was a slower back of a length delivery around the off-stump, swiped away across the line, more from the inner half of the bat, the ball plugs in the outfield which gives Shaurya the opportunity to return for a brace.

Vasu Vats, right-arm medium fast, comes into the attack

A spirited effort from Rehman and one can see his disappointment. He's not too thrilled about that bumper going the distance and perhaps is thinking he chose the wrong option there. Lucknow need only 5 runs to win. Surely, they can't lose it from here?

overs

74 /0 score

runs

Shaurya Singh *

42 (22)

Harsh Tyagi

28 (20)

Abdul Rehman-VI

0 /14

6.6 Abdul Rehman to Shaurya Singh, yorker-length delivery a shade outside off, Shaurya digs this out towards the cover-point region for a single, will keep strike for the final over.

Every time the Falcons have felt the pressure, Shaurya Singh delivers with a boundary.

6.5 Abdul Rehman to Shaurya Singh, SIX! The pressure was building ever so slightly but Shaurya has again tilted the scales in their favour. Moves across the off-stump early, read that short delivery early. Bit of a swivel as he manages to deposit that well over the backward square leg fence.

6.4 Abdul Rehman to Shaurya Singh, that was a fuller-length delivery outside off, Shaurya tries to open the bat face and carve it away towards the third man region, gets beaten.

6.3 Abdul Rehman to Shaurya Singh, that was a good-length delivery a shade outside off, Rehman just rolling his fingers over that at the last moment, on a good-length outside off, Shaurya swipes across the line, loses his shape and gets beaten.

6.2 Abdul Rehman to Harsh Tyagi, slower back of a length delivery just a tad outside off, Tyagi clears his front leg and glides it away towards the short third man fielder, has to be content with a single.